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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
> EITC was not initially designed as welfare, rather it was "supposed to be a temporary refundable tax credit for lower-income workers to offset the Social Security payroll tax and rising food and energy prices."[0] Hah, that m
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
Same. He was certainly passionate about his politics. Condolences to the friends and family. (NTS: post on Sept. 21, 2023).
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Predicaments of Abundance: the manifest injustice of make-work criminal justice(twitter.com)
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
On December 31 2022 Congressman Thomas Massie (MIT alum) tweeted, "If you were in Congress, what would your priorities be for 2023?" I submitted this response thread about one of the Predicaments of Abundance: I propose the United
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I drove a taxi for about 3.5 years. Mostly it was random people going places. Taxi driving is not the most intellectually stimulating job, so I amused myself by talking to my passengers to figure out if they had anything to teach me. After
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Someone I know lined up to get jabbed and boosted in January/December 2021. He was still traumatized by his severe COVID-19 esperience in ... june 2020? In November '22 he said he's going to pass on getting bi-boosted, on acc
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Humanity has a long history of self-medicating distress. At first this was mostly with alcohol. America's prohibition efforts started in the early 1900's: prohibition, Harrison Narcotic Tax Act, etc. https://en.wikipedi
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I don't have any personal experience with amphetamines, or any of the stimulants other than caffeine. But plenty of my passengers were struggling with substance addictions. I had a passenger who was whacked out on something. He disappe
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Thanks for the comment, and the encouragement. All law enforcement have the same dilemma: they're given a job with only a few tools. I had to call 911 a few times over my 3.5 years in my taxi. They were as helpful as they could be, but
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My observations of Arizona's approach to criminal justice leads me to believe it's mostly a make-work program. Many of my passengers were deteriorated by their time in Arizona's jails and prisons. While there are a few violen
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Was the food adequate? How was the prison library? What did you learn from the experience? My passenger [0] says the Maricopa jail wouldn't be so bad, if the food was better than 2 inedible meals a day. [0] https://news.ycom
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I wrote a story for kuro5hin.org (RIP) about the passenger who called me from jail, because he remembered my phone number. Who Are Your Lifelines? - https://www.taxiwars.org/p/who-are-your-lifelines.html (2015) Tha
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My understanding is Ukraine was ready to negotiate with Russia by April 2022. Boris Johnson, the former UK prime minister, went to visit [0] around April 9 2022. Thenceforth Zelensky seems to have understood that Ukraine was to fight to the
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
What is "And then Putin" supposed to mean? Perhaps you mean that Mr. Putin is implementing Gorbachev's goal of "turning Russia into another Sweden", which was blocked by Bush the Elder and the collective west's
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Someone I respect said science became ossified - "rigid or fixed in attitude or position" - in 1845. A general description of the 3 suspects was provided. Science keeps trying to fix itself, but the rigidity is persistent.
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I noted that it was 4pm. Just checked: sunset is at 3:51pm tomorrow. So that makes sense. Even so, the available solar energy in the UK in December is ~1/5 what it is in June: https://www.viridiansolar.co.uk/resources-1
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
On Friday, December 9th at ~4:00pm GMT (Greenwich mean time): Nuclear: 5.25 GW Wind: 3.84 GW Combined Cycle Gas Turbines: 23.31 GW Solar (Estimated): 0.35GW Installed Wind Capacity (onshore + offshore): 25 GW [0] Installed
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
> Arizona has the reputation of being a desert, but in reality it is a state that is half-desert and half-mountain, and has a tons of water. The mountainous areas are 'high deserts'. Most of Arizona's water is underground.
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
NYC had quotas - "taxi medallions". Arizona had minimal regulations: vehicle safety inspections, meter accuracy, driver screening. The big taxi companies were mostly trusted to do their own regulatory compliance for their fleets a
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
The entire innovation of ridesharing was taxi dispatch, with a smartphone. It was only a slight incremental improvement over the existing state-of-the art. More convenient access to "rides" is a bandaid on the mistake of building
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My first time SCUBA diving was at Boy Scouts. I was 12 years old. The pool was only 3 or 4 feet deep, but they still gave a safety talk before turning us loose with tanks, regulators and buoyancy control devices: "never stop breathing&
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Presumably none of the groundbreaking / fun research is carried out at Area 51 anymore. If you were a research scientist doing classified research, and invented anti-gravity, would the powers behind the scenes allow this technology int
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
hah, thanks. It was inspired by one of Michael Crawford's [0] usernames at K$5 (kuro5hin.org), Zombie Jesus Christ . At first the other K5 users thought Taxi Cab Jesus was just trolling Michael. But really the point was to post diar
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
One of my more memorable encounters in my taxi was with an older fellow who was moving cars to sell at auction (in Scottsdale, Arizona). "How'd you find your way to the desert?" Phoenix was half-way between the labs in Los An
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
I always got the sense that it's a mistake to switch to lithium-powered vehicles, for anything more than a "proof-of-concept" number of early adopters. The tragedy of our era is designing communities for cars instead of peopl
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
The article is sort-of interesting, but it opens by rewriting history: > In March 2020, New York City’s hospitals filled up with patients desperately ill with Covid-19. In many cases, when their fluid-filled lungs could no longer give th
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Ingo Swann helped design the United States' threat analysis of the Soviets' bio-information transfer program. Swann was an artist who'd made a name for himself as a parapsychological research subject in NYC. This page is abo
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
As @rolph links below, oxygen is toxic at higher partial pressures. I have an acquaintance who went to the hospital within 24 hours of her first hyperbaric treatment. She was coughing up blood, iirc: "I warned you about this, don&#x27
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
My first taxi passenger in 2012 was a woman going for outpatient surgery. Her Medicaid plan was paying for the transportation. The company’s computer system kept track of her fare. In the old days the “voucher” fares were on paper slips. Mo
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by taxicabjesus 4y ago
Submission link is to Google Translate. (edit: removed?) edit: Here's the translation via google: https://vz-ru.translate.goog/society/2021/4/14/1094528.html?... Edit2: Opening paragraphs: > The

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